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8/16/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

Cloudflare Access now protects Workers at the app and account level

Cloudflare has moved Access controls closer to Workers themselves, letting teams protect one Worker across every route or make all current and future Workers private by default.

Tools & Apps

8/15/2026 4 min

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Agent Plugins 1.0 reaches Copilot as vendors standardize agent extensions

Agent Plugins 1.0 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot surfaces after Vercel, AWS, Anysphere, GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google aligned around a portable package format for agent skills and MCP servers.

Tools & Apps

8/15/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

Cloudflare adds DeepSeek V4’s 1M-context models to Workers AI

Cloudflare added DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4 Flash to Workers AI, giving developers access to one-million-token reasoning models through Workers bindings, REST, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, and AI Gateway.

Tools & Apps

8/14/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

Vercel CDN enables Encrypted Client Hello for Vercel DNS domains

Vercel CDN now supports Encrypted Client Hello for domains managed by Vercel DNS, turning on hostname privacy at the platform layer where browsers support it.

Tools & Apps

8/12/2026 4 min

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Microsoft brings MAI-Code-1.1-Flash to Copilot at a lower token price

Microsoft and GitHub are rolling out MAI-Code-1.1-Flash in GitHub Copilot, adding vision support and cutting Copilot token prices sharply versus MAI-Code-1-Flash.

Tools & Apps

8/11/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

Vercel moves Sandbox defaults to versioned managed images

Vercel Sandbox SDK v3 now defaults new sandboxes to open-source managed images, changing the base operating system, toolchain, and update model for agent code execution.

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